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Album Review: Billy Danze – The Listening Session

Tim SentzNovember 20, 2020

It’s been a minute since the Brooklyn rap duo M.O.P. did anything together – 2014 saw an EP drop, but since then the tandem of Lil’ Fame and Billy Danze have f...

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Album Review: Pink Siifu & Fly Anakin – FlySiifu’s

Tim SentzNovember 13, 2020

On his sophomore album Negro, released back in April, Alabama underground rapper Pink Siifu threw everything he could at the wall. Elements of jazz, punk, Afro...

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Hindsight 2020: The best albums we didn’t review

Emma Bauchner, Ray Finlayson, Rob Hakimian, Brody Kenny, Kyle Kohner, Ana Leorne, Chase McMullen, Gareth O'Malley, Grady Penna, Josh Sand, Tim Sentz, Harrison Suits Baer, Carlo Thomas, John Wohlmacher and Scott ZanassiNovember 9, 2020

Well, here we are, with this nightmare of a year nearing a close. Before we dive into our proper year-end coverage, we wanted to take a moment to show some lov...

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Album Review: NOTHING – The Great Dismal

Tim SentzNovember 3, 2020

Philadelphia band Nothing might be the strongest bastion of shoegaze revival in the 2020s, and despite numerous line-up changes, Domenic Palermo has lead them ...

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Album Review: Benny the Butcher – Burden of Proof

Tim SentzOctober 20, 2020

It’s 2020 and Benny the Butcher’s sophomore album Burden of Proof is the seventh release from the enigmatic Griselda Records. The constant onslaught from this ...

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Album Review: Open Mike Eagle – Anime, Trauma and Divorce

Tim SentzOctober 16, 2020

In the pantheon of emotive music out there, none can be as truly devastating as the explicit detail of a relationship breaking down. Such is the pilgrimage L.A...

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Album Review: Jay Electronica – Act II: The Patents of Nobility (The Turn)

Tim SentzOctober 15, 2020

Earlier this year, Louisiana rapper Jay Electronica released his debut album A Written Testimony, aided heavily by the presence of Jay-Z, the very man who jump...

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Album Review: METZ – Atlas Vending

Tim SentzOctober 14, 2020

Springing into the scene in 2012, Metz – the trio of Alex Edkins, Chris Slorach, and Hayden Menzies – have previously delivered three epic albums of intense sc...

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Second Look: Women – Public Strain

Tim SentzOctober 8, 2020

It’s kind of difficult to make a case for a short-lived band’s second album to be a modern masterpiece. The Calgary post-punk outfit Women released their sopho...

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Album Review: Shamir – Shamir

Tim SentzOctober 2, 2020

Coming a mere seven months after March’s Cataclysm, Las Vegas singer-songwriter Shamir Bailey returns with another round of indie rock samplings with Shamir. T...

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